The influence of fantastical discourse context on young children’s on-line sentence comprehension

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Children encounter many fantastical events in stories (e.g. Peter Pan takes off and flies). When preschoolers are asked explicit questions about how stories work, they show their understanding that events in fiction can contradict what they know about the way events happen in the real world. However, children’s answers to explicit questions often differ significantly from their interpretation of events in real time.